Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Fluid Mechanics is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves145
Turbulence kinetic energy transfers in direct numerical simulation of shock-wave–turbulence interaction in a compression/expansion ramp102
Prediction of energy harvesting efficiency through a wake–foil interaction model for oscillating foil arrays83
Elasto-inertial rectification of oscillatory flow in an elastic tube83
The interplay between bulk flow and boundary conditions on the distribution of microswimmers in channel flow82
Finite rotating and translating vortex sheets81
Attachment-line, cross-flow and Tollmien–Schlichting instabilities on swept ONERA-D and Joukowski airfoils79
Improved assessment of the statistical stability of turbulent flows using extended Orr–Sommerfeld stability analysis79
Decay rate of homogeneous isotropic turbulence laden with finite-size particles77
Experimental investigations of linear and nonlinear periodic travelling waves in a viscous fluid conduit75
Transient deformation of a viscoelastic capsule in a cross-slot microchannel: effects of inertia and membrane viscosity75
Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows: onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments74
Principle of fundamental resonance in hypersonic boundary layers: an asymptotic viewpoint70
Shape of sessile drops at small contact angles65
Scale-by-scale non-equilibrium with Kolmogorov-like scalings in non-homogeneous stationary turbulence63
A weakly nonlinear amplitude equation approach to the bypass transition in the two-dimensional Lamb–Oseen vortex62
Hydrodynamic coupling of a cilia–mucus system in Herschel–Bulkley flows60
Reflectionless wave propagation on shallow water with variable bathymetry and current. Part 257
Electrophoretic trajectories of non-uniformly charged particles in viscoelastic fluids: the weak surface charge limit54
Two-dimensional stability analysis of finite-amplitude interfacial gravity waves in a two-layer fluid53
Vortex line entanglement in active Beltrami flows52
Scaling and mechanism of the propagation speed of the upstream turbulent front in pipe flow51
Effects of the secondary baroclinic vorticity on the energy cascade in the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability50
The dynamics of impinging plumes from a moving source50
Numerical study on topological change of viscous fingering induced by a phase separation with Korteweg force49
Averaging theory for heat transfer in circular hydraulic jumps with a separation bubble48
Separation length scaling for dual-incident shock wave–turbulent boundary layer interactions with different shock wave distances47
Drag reduction in wall-bounded turbulence by synthetic jet sheets47
FLM volume 954 Cover and Front matter46
FLM volume 944 Cover and Front matter46
FLM volume 922 Cover and Front matter43
Bubble nucleation and jetting inside a millimetric droplet43
Large-eddy simulations of conical hypersonic turbulent boundary layers over cooled walls via volumetric rescaling method42
Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets42
FLM volume 990 Cover and Front matter42
Stabilising nonlinear travelling waves in pipe flow using time-delayed feedback41
Fingering instability of self-similar radial flow of miscible fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell41
Mechanisms and models of particle drag enhancements in turbulent environments41
Motion of bulk nanobubbles driven by thermal Marangoni flow41
Reduced representations of Rayleigh–Bénard flows via autoencoders40
Laminar flow over I-shaped dual-step cylinders40
Discontinuous transitions towards vortex condensates in buoyancy-driven rotating turbulence40
Order–disorder transitions within deformable particle suspensions in planar Poiseuille flow40
Poiseuille flow of a concentrated suspension of squirmers40
A thin-plate approximation for ocean wave interactions with an ice shelf40
Effects of dilatation and turbulence on tangential strain rates in premixed hydrogen and iso-octane flames39
Turbulence ingestion noise generation in rotating blades39
Aerodynamics and fluid–structure interaction of an airfoil with actively controlled flexible leeward surface39
Global drag reduction and local flow statistics in Taylor–Couette turbulence with dilute polymer additives38
Reaction induced interfacial instability of miscible fluids in a channel38
FLM volume 1007 Cover and Front matter38
Transition to chaos in a reduced-order model of a shear layer37
Prediction of flow and polymeric stresses in a viscoelastic turbulent channel flow using convolutional neural networks37
Vortex ring connection to a free surface37
Global modes of viscous heated jets with real gas effects37
Linear dynamics of over-expanded annular supersonic jets37
Wing sweep effects on laminar separated flows37
Adjoint-based linear sensitivity of a supersonic boundary layer to steady wall blowing–suction/heating–cooling37
A linear-elastic–nonlinear-swelling theory for hydrogels. Part 2. Displacement formulation37
Inundation, runup and flow velocity of wavemaker generated bores on a planar beach36
Thermals from finite sources in stable and unstable environments36
Linear stability of monopolar vortices over isolated topography36
Evaporation of non-circular droplets36
Hanging droplets from liquid interfaces36
On–off pumping for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow35
Inertia-gravity waves and geostrophic turbulence35
Dynamics of a self-propelled compound droplet35
Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier–Stokes equations. Part 3. Maximal vorticity amplification35
Compressibility effects on the secondary instabilities of the circular cylinder wake35
Steady periodic waves over a planar seabed: a global characterization35
Continuum dynamics of suspensions at low Reynolds number35
Oscillatory flow around a vertical circular cylinder placed in an open channel: coherent structures, sediment entrainment potential and drag forces35
Predicting convection configurations in coupled fluid–porous systems34
Wake transitions behind a cube at low and moderate Reynolds numbers34
Flow past two rotationally oscillating cylinders33
Inertial focusing in planar pulsatile flows33
Searching for the log law in open channel flow33
Mean resolvent operator of a statistically steady flow33
Scale-similar structures of homogeneous isotropic non-mirror-symmetric turbulence based on the Lagrangian closure theory32
Immiscible capillary flows in non-uniform channels32
Role of volatility and thermal properties in droplet spreading: a generalisation to Tanner's law32
Log at first sight32
Stokes–Darcy system, small-Darcy-number behaviour and related interfacial conditions32
Gas-sheared falling liquid films beyond the absolute instability limit32
Fracture patterns in viscoplastic gravity currents32
These things take time: the first 1000 volumes of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics32
Edge-driven collapse of fluid holes32
Double-diffusive convection with gravitationally unstable temperature and concentration gradients in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media32
Dynamics of elongated bubbles in slightly inclined pipes with viscous fluids32
Water entry of an elastic conical shell32
Electromagnetic field effect on a conducting liquid film flowing down an inclined or vertical plane32
Atomisation of an acoustically levitated droplet: experimental observations of myriad complex phenomena31
Asymptotic theory of a flapping wing of a circular cross-section31
Turbulent drag reduction with streamwise-travelling waves in the compressible regime31
Boundary-layer approach to the linear karren instability31
Investigations on the turbulentnon-turbulent interface in supersonic compressible plate turbulent boundary layer31
JFM in the electronic age31
Wave turbulence in a rotating channel: numerical implementation and results31
Numerical study on the interaction between a shock wave and porous foam and the mitigation mechanism of porous foam filling a straight tube on a blast wave30
Direct numerical simulation of supersonic and hypersonic turbulent boundary layers at moderate-high Reynolds numbers and isothermal wall condition30
Hydrodynamic performance and scaling laws for a modelled wave-induced flapping-foil propulsor30
The impact of source fluctuations in a filling box with interior diffusive mixing30
Consistent lattice Boltzmann model for reactive mixtures30
Nucleation effects on cavitation about a sphere30
Breakage dynamics and scaling of wet aggregates of rigid particles29
Hydroacoustic analysis of a marine propeller using large-eddy simulation and acoustic analogy29
A unified theoretical model for spatiotemporal development of Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov fingers29
Feigenbaum universality in subcritical Taylor–Couette flow29
The interaction of multiple bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel29
The influence of the shock-to-reshock time on the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in reshock28
On the role of roughness valleys in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection28
Instability of a weakly viscoelastic film flow on an oscillating inclined plane28
Liquid states in horizontal plate-inserted slits28
The Rayleigh prolongation factor at small bubble to wall stand-off distances28
The role of Lagrangian drift in the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of surface waves28
A thermomechanical model for frost heave and subglacial frozen fringe28
A freely suspended robotic swimmer propelled by viscoelastic normal stresses28
Conditional analysis on extreme wall shear stress and heat flux events in compressible turbulent boundary layers28
Shock induced aerobreakup of a droplet28
Paradoxical predictions of swirling jets28
Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning28
Effect of fluid inertial torque on the rotational and orientational dynamics of tiny spheroidal particles in turbulent channel flow28
Dynamics-preserving compression for modal flow analysis28
Reduction of noise in cold and hot supersonic jets using active flow control guided by a genetic algorithm28
Turbulent separations beneath semi-submerged bluff bodies with smooth and rough undersurfaces28
Energetics and mixing of thermally driven flows in Hele-Shaw cells28
Upscale transfer of waves in one-dimensional rotating shallow water27
FLM volume 963 Cover and Front matter27
Shock attenuation of dense granular media27
Aerodynamic deformation and breakup of wall-attached droplets in axisymmetric stagnation airflow27
Compressibility effects on statistics and coherent structures of compressible turbulent mixing layers27
On the analytic explanation of experiments where turbulence vanishes in pipe flow27
Transition of solitary waves and undular bore from basin to channel with opposing current27
Particle segregation within bidisperse turbidity current evolution27
Evolution of convection in a layered porous medium27
A shear and elongational decomposition approach of the rate-of-deformation tensor for non-Newtonian flows with mixed kinematics27
The onset of filamentation on vorticity interfaces in two-dimensional Euler flows27
Linear stability theory and molecular simulations of nanofilm dewetting with disjoining pressure, strong liquid–solid slip and thermal fluctuations27
Optimal growth in hypersonic flows over an inclined cone26
Breaking bubbles across multiple time scales in turbulence26
Generation and characterization of fully developed state in open channel flow26
Emergence of lobed wakes during the sedimentation of spheres in viscoelastic fluids26
Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes26
Viscoelastic fluid flow in a slowly varying planar contraction: the role of finite extensibility on the pressure drop26
Self-similar fault slip in response to fluid injection26
Leading-edge vortex dynamics on plunging airfoils and wings26
The role of double‐layer vortex rings with the local swirl in the rapid transition to turbulent flows in Richtmyer–Meshkov instability with reshock26
Opposing-buoyancy mixed convection through and around arrays of heated cylinders26
Cylinder flow and noise control by active base blowing26
Tripping effects on model-scale studies of flow over the DARPA SUBOFF26
Evidence that uniform momentum zones originate from roughness sublayer structure interactions in fully rough channel turbulence26
FLM volume 999 Cover and Front matter26
Attracting dynamical modes of highly elastic fibres settling under gravity in a viscous fluid25
Statistical properties of pressure-Hessian tensor in a turbulent channel flow25
FLM volume 1001 Cover and Front matter25
Water entry of cups and disks25
Stability and bifurcation of dynamic contact lines in two dimensions25
Fake turbulence25
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems25
Experimental study of bubble competition and spike competition in Richtmyer–Meshkov flows25
Designing vortices in pipe flow with topography-driven Langmuir circulation25
Manipulation of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability on a heavy–light interface via successive shocks25
Analysis and modelling of non-local eddy diffusivity for turbulent scalar flux25
Robust relation of streamwise velocity autocorrelation in atmospheric surface layers based on an autoregressive moving average model25
Multipolar spherical and cylindrical vortices25
Mixing enhancement of a compressible jet over a convex wall25
Thermal convection in the internally heated sphere25
Emergent rheotaxis of shape-changing swimmers in Poiseuille flow25
The skating of drops impacting over gas or vapour layers25
How does turbulence mix a stratified fluid?25
Understanding the effect of Prandtl number on momentum and scalar mixing rates in neutral and stably stratified flows using gradient field dynamics24
Turbulent energy transfers in physical and scale spaces at dissipative length scales24
Macroscopic model for generalised Newtonian inertial two-phase flow in porous media24
The limits of β-plane turbulence24
Analysis of the choking condition of one-dimensional diabatic flows with wall friction24
An almost subharmonic instability in the flow past rectangular cylinders24
Complex-network analysis of high-frequency combustion instability in a model single-element rocket engine combustor24
Elastohydrodynamic interactions in soft hydraulic knots24
Drag reduction utilizing a wall-attached ferrofluid film in turbulent channel flow24
Nested travelling wave structures in elastoinertial turbulence24
Capillary lubrication of a spherical particle near a fluid interface24
Learning fluid physics from highly turbulent data using sparse physics-informed discovery of empirical relations (SPIDER)24
Pair statistics of oblate spheroids settling in a turbulent flow24
Emergence of long-range correlations and thermal spectra in forced turbulence24
Generalized Reynolds equation for microscale lubrication between eccentric circular cylinders based on kinetic theory24
The transient spread of a circular liquid jet and hydraulic jump formation24
Regime transitions in stratified shear flows: the link between horizontal and inclined ducts24
Flow topology in the gap and wake of convex curved tandem cylinders24
Near-wake dynamics of a vertical-axis turbine24
Scaling analysis for the frequency of Ostwaldian and Newtonian bead-on-fibre flows24
A model for the dissipation rate in linear unsteady flow through porous media24
Anchoring and migration of balloon in REBOA24
Generalized Lagrangian heterogeneous multiscale modelling of complex fluids24
A coherent composite approach for the continuous circular hydraulic jump and vortex structure24
Hydrodynamic response of an annular swirling liquid sheet surrounding a forced gas jet24
Role of streak secondary instabilities on free-stream turbulence-induced transition24
Non-locality of mean scalar transport in two-dimensional Rayleigh–Taylor instability using the macroscopic forcing method24
Slow-growth approximation for near-wall patch representation of wall-bounded turbulence24
Droplet jumping by modulated electrowetting23
Droplet evaporation in inert gases23
Two-interface and thin-filament approximation in Hele-Shaw channel flow23
Second-order analysis of hypersonic boundary-layer stability23
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell23
Effect of inhaled air temperature on mucus dynamics in the proximal airways23
Converging material with two bulges23
Asymmetry of motion: vortex rings crossing a density gradient23
Weakly nonlinear behaviour of transonic buffet on airfoils23
A decoupled mechanism of interface growth in single-mode hydrodynamic instabilities23
New formulations for the mean wall-normal velocity and Reynolds shear stress in a turbulent boundary layer under zero pressure gradient23
Curved detonation equations with analysis and its applications23
Direct numerical simulation of 45° oblique flow past surface-mounted square cylinder23
Optimising subgrid-scale closures for spectral energy transfer in turbulent flows23
Influence of immersed particles on the stability of the liquid–liquid interface in a two-layer channel flow23
Influence of the gas-phase Lewis number and thermocapillary stress on motion of a slowly evaporating droplet in Stokes flow23
Convective mesoscale turbulence at very low Prandtl numbers23
Gravity currents from moving sources23
Reflection of a rightward-moving shock wave over a steady oblique shock with post-formed expansion wave22
Mean flow and turbulence in unsteady canopy layers22
Turbulence and heat transfer on a rotating, heated half soap bubble22
Leakage dynamics of fault zones: experimental and analytical study with application to CO2 storage22
The energy cascade as the origin of intense events in small-scale turbulence22
On the turbulence modelling of waves breaking on a vertical pile22
Spreading of a viscous drop after impact onto a spherical target22
FLM volume 925 Cover and Front matter22
Turbulence suppression by streamwise-varying wall rotation in pipe flow22
Pressure-driven flow through superhydrophobic pipes with general patterns of longitudinal no-shear stripes22
Transient dispersion process of active particles22
The effects of surfactants on plunging breakers22
Characteristic scales during the onset of radiatively driven convection: linear analysis and simulations22
Stratified horizontal convection22
Mechanisms of wake asymmetry and secondary structures behind low aspect-ratio wall-mounted prisms22
Ion emission from nanodroplets undergoing Coulomb explosions: a continuum numerical study22
Direct numerical simulation of interaction between a stationary crossflow instability and forward-facing steps22
Two-phase volume-averaged predictive theory of dilute ferrofluid spin-up flow in a rotating magnetic field22
A two-fluid model for immersed granular avalanches with dilatancy effects22
Unsteady convective–diffusive transport in semicircular microchannels with irreversible wall reaction22
On the clustering of low-aspect-ratio oblate spheroids settling in ambient fluid22
Cavitation bubble dynamics inside a droplet suspended in a different host fluid22
Shear flow over a surface containing a groove covered by an incompressible surfactant phase22
Three-dimensional generative adversarial networks for turbulent flow estimation from wall measurements22
Gravity current energetics and particle suspension22
Eigenvalue bounds for compressible stratified magnetoshear flows varying in two transverse directions21
Experimental investigation of the structure of plane turbulent wall jets. Part 1. Spectral analysis21
Universal scaling of mean skin friction in turbulent boundary layers and fully developed pipe and channel flows21
Buoyancy effects on film boiling heat transfer from a sphere at low velocities21
Analytical bounds on the heat transport in internally heated convection21
Short-wavelength instabilities in a finite-amplitude plane inertial wave21
The effect of side walls on the stability of falling films21
The reflection of a planar impulsive shock wave at a liquid–gas interface21
The nascent coffee ring with arbitrary droplet contact set: an asymptotic analysis21
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